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Bordeaux

Bordeaux is the world’s most famous fine-wine producing region. Even non-wine drinkers recognize the names of Bordeaux’s celebrated wines, such as Margaux and Lafite-Rothschild. Located near the Atlantic coast in southwest France, the region takes its name from the seaport city of Bordeaux, a wine trading center with an outstanding site on the Garonne River and easy access to the Atlantic. Like most French wine regions, Bordeaux’s first vineyards were planted by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago, then tended by medieval monks. Aristocrats and nobility later owned the region’s best estates and today estates are owned by everyone from non-French business conglomerates to families who have been proprietors for generations. Bordeaux has nearly 280,000 acres of vineyards, 57 appellations and 10,000 wine-producing châteaux. Bordeaux is bifurcated by the Gironde Estuary into so-called “right bank” and “left bank” appellations. Bordeaux’s red wines are blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. It also makes white wines of Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle. There are several classification systems in Bordeaux. All are attempts to rank the estates based on the historic quality of the wines.

2001 Château Angelus

RP  97   
WS  92   
ST  91   
JR  17.5   

2005 Château Angelus

RP  100   
JS  97   
ST  96   
WS  95   
JR  18   
5 available
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2005 Château Angelus

RP  100   
JS  97   
ST  96   
WS  95   
JR  18   
4 available
Bid *

2020 Château Angelus

JS  99   
JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  96-98   
3 available
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2020 Château Angelus

JS  99   
JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  96-98   

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1967 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue

MB  ****   
2 available
Bid *

1978 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ****   

1979 Château Cheval-Blanc

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

MB  ****   

1980 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

2004 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light label condition issue

WE  96   
JR  19   
WS  94   
WA  92   
ST  90+    

2012 Château Cheval-Blanc

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

VN  97   
WS  95   
WE  95   
JR  18.5+    

2009 Château Pavie

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  98   
ST  96   
JR  17   
2 available
Bid *

2009 Château Pavie

RP  100   
WS  98   
ST  96   
JR  17   

2014 Château Pavie

Light label condition issue

VN  94   

1990 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   

1990 Château Troplong-Mondot

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  95   

2009 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

RP  100   
WS  95   
JS  94   
ST  92+    
JR  17   

2009 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

RP  100   
WS  95   
JS  94   
ST  92+    
JR  17   

1966 Château Ausone

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue

1976 Château Ausone

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  94   

1976 Château Ausone

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  94